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Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…trine typo was just that, as was the difference in Francis’ and Benedict’s net favorability rating, which is 11 points, not 6. But my point remains. Given the near-consensus that Benedict’s papacy was pretty much a disaster for the church, I find it a bit surprising that three-quarters of Catholics still had a generally favorable view of the guy. To me, as I said, it suggests that most Catholics don’t pay much attention to the particulars in Rome…

Pew Finds Trump-Era Increase in the ‘Evangelical’ Label — And Yes, They’re ‘Real’ Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…me group of people polled after both the 2016 and the 2020 elections, is a net four percent increase in white Americans who identified as born again or evangelical over that time period, with the increase apparently driven by favorable attitudes toward Donald Trump. That’s an interesting finding, but it simply doesn’t sustain the conclusion that “evangelicals have exchanged religion for power,” as one writer summarized Charles M. Blow’s commentary…

Swiftboating Obama’s Health Care Reform?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ssments of IndyMac led to a run on the bank, “with depositors taking out a net $1.3 billion in the following two weeks,” according to the Los Angeles Times. The former employees accused Schumer of “a malicious, politically motivated act.” CRC circulated a letter from the employees to California Attorney General Jerry Brown to major media. “The letter, signed mostly by former staffers at IndyMac’s now-shuttered mortgage operation, asks Brown to inv…

All You Had to Do Was Express Regret: Pope Benedict XVI’s Rocky Visit to Yad Vashem

By Adam Gregerman

…, is insufficient from a Catholic leader. Though some critics cast a wider net than others in the range of complaints, all these examples reflect unhappiness with Benedict’s failure to grapple self-critically with a troubling historical legacy. While their reactions are of course subjective, these assessments are entirely correct. In the speeches of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, as well as in many church documents, there is nothing resembling a d…

Prosperity Preachers: Where Are They Now?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…to say as the American economy tumbles and their parishioners watch their net worth evaporate like the mid-morning dew? I mean they have taught us for the past few decades that by faith we can transcend the economy of the natural realm. If you walk with God and live the higher life in Christ, you don’t have to worry about the “world’s order.” And they have encouraged churchgoers to believe that poverty and economic lack is a mindset to be overcom…

Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative

By Sarah Posner

…e families and fathers in their communities.” One 2011 awardee is the Care Net Crisis Pregnancy Center in Rapid City, South Dakota. Another is the Sav-A-Life Pregnancy Test Center (no mystery about its position, right?) in Birmingham, Alabama. On the National Fatherhood Initiative website, Sav-A-Life describes its mission as “to help men and women embrace the truth of God’s Word as they make life-affirming decisions about their unborn child.” Aha….

“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…writes. “But the truth is that whatever deity, entity, energy, or random genetic flux produces sick children also produced Roger Federer, and just look at that down there. Look at that.” Wimbledon that year was a religious experience, Wallace says, a kind of grace, an experience of another, better world. And the thing about grace is that it’s inherently good; it’s never inappropriate, even when it springs from a flawed source. For all of the probl…

The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…to say that their personal religious beliefs conflict with science. Time, CNET, and LiveScience all took up this angle, and many chalked this up to hypocrisy. LiveScience’s Tia Ghose, for example, interprets Pew’s report to indicate that Americans perceive anti-science to be “a problem with those other people.” CNET’s Chris Matyszczyk attributes this to a holier-than-thou attitude that’s fundamental to human nature. If we remind ourselves that Pew…

One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Religion and the Obama Campaign

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the Wall Street Journal, Steven Waldman, founder of the online site Beliefnet made several interesting observations about the current climate of political campaigning. Now admittedly, there is a long tradition of Republican sniping at “liberal” concerns that they’ve wedded themselves too closely to evangelical Christianity. And Waldman is surely right to suggest that one cannot simultaneously lionize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s involvement in Eb…

Tony Perkins: Soldiers Will Quit if Gays Can Serve Openly

By Daniel Schultz

…side the debatable assumption that the draft is a bad thing (it could be a net positive, especially with a German-style alternative service proviso), does Perkins really think that the same men and women who will walk exposed into enemy fire to save their buddies would be scared to serve next to a gay man or lesbian? Really? Well, not exactly. As butch as Perkins’ understanding of how the military works is, it has less to do with the physical prot…